Early Modern Studies. Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe /

Early Modern Studies. Episcopal Reform and Politics in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Jennifer Mara DeSilva.

In the tumultuous period of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when ecclesiastical reform spread across Europe, the traditional role of the bishop as a public exemplar of piety, morality, and communal administration came under attack. In communities where there was tension between religious gro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
MitwirkendeR:
Alexander, John,
Christopoulos, John,
Cools, Hans,
DeSilva, Jennifer Mara,
Fehleison, Jill,
Gay, Jean-Pascal,
Hudon, William V.,
Lierheimer, Linda,
McNamara, Celeste,
Perin, Antonella,
Powell, Raymond A.,
HerausgeberIn:
DeSilva, Jennifer Mara,
Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Early Modern Studies ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword: The Local Nature of Episcopal Reform in the Age of the Council of Trent
  • Introduction: A Living Example
  • Part 1: Episcopal Authority
  • Hierarchy that Had Fought: Episcopal Promotion during the Reign of Mary I (1553–58) and the Roots of Episcopal Resistance to the Elizabethan Religious Settlement
  • Bishops in the Habsburg Netherlands on the Eve of the Catholic Renewal, 1515–59
  • Office and Patronage in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Tortona
  • Part 2: Pastoral Practice
  • The Absentee Bishop in Residence: Paris de’ Grassi, Bishop of Pesaro, 1513–28
  • Papal Authority, Episcopal Reservation, and Abortion in Sixteenth-Century Italy
  • Ministering to Catholics and Protestants Alike: The Preaching, Polemics, and Pastoral Care of François de Sales
  • Part 3: Clerical Reform
  • Gender, Resistance, and the Limits of Episcopal Authority: Sébastien Zamet’s Relationships with Nuns, 1615–55
  • Challenges to Episcopal Authority in Seventeenth-Century Padua
  • Trials That Should Have Been: The Question of Judicial Jurisdiction over French Bishops in the Seventeenth Century and the Self-Narration of the Roman Inquisition
  • Contributors
  • Index

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